The Daily Iowan- 10.22.18

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The Daily Iowan MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018

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A ‘home away from home’ for 50 years The times have changed in the 50 years since the Afro House was established, but those who use it say the space remains necessary. BY MARISSA PAYNE | marissa-payne@uiowa.edu You could go days without seeing a black person around campus and Iowa City when Venise Berry was a University of Iowa student in the 1970s. It was that sense of isolation compounded by the racial tensions of the times that prompted black students to call for a space on campus of their own — a space where they could come together, relax, and just “be” with people who looked like them — while living and learning at a predominantly white institution. Amid the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, in 1968, the UI gave black students just that — a residential-style unit in the form of a house dedicated to serving them. “It was ours,” Berry said. “It was a place for us.”

The first ‘home away from home’ 1968 marked the year the UI started putting resources toward physical spaces in which historically marginalized populations could go to find others like them. Now, 50 years later, UI has four cultural and resource centers that serve the Latino, Native American, Asian-American, Afro-American, and LGBTQ communities. They aim to affirm students’ identities and provide a place in which those students can feel a sense of belonging. The UI’s centers stand among other public institutions, including the 14 Big Ten schools, which also have centers dedicated for historically marginalized populations on campus. Each of the UI’s centers was founded for different reasons and in different ways, said Prisma Ruacho, the Asian Pacific American Cultural Center coordinator. But the Afro House was among the first cultural centers in the nation to be established, serving as a hub for student activism during the Civil Rights Movement. “We wouldn’t be here without that first step,” Ruacho said. That’s precisely why the university community recently hosted a celebration for the Afro House to honor its 50-year history, she said. Students had to fight to secure that place to call their own against pushback from administrators, Afro House coordinator Jamal Nelson said. Then came Philip Hubbard — the vice president for Student Services and dean of Academic Affairs at the time and also the first African American vice president at a Big Ten university. Hubbard helped black students on campus secure a temporary location for a center at 3 E. Market St., which opened in October 1968. Plans for a center for black students on campus came at the recommendation of the UI Human Rights Committee in 1967, The Daily Iowan reported in November 1968. SEE HOME, 2

ENROLLMENT 1978: 559 black students out of 22,290* 2018: 1,040 black students out of 33,564

Top: Students stand outside the Afro-American Cultural Center in a photo printed inside a brochure for the center. (UI Special Collections) Bottom: Members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council perform a dance outside the Afro House on Oct. 2, 2017. (Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan)

Enrollment numbers count the previous fall semester. Undergraduates and graduates included. *The UI did not count enrollment by ethnicity until 1978.

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Sights from an Iowa football shutout Iowa slaughtered Maryland, 23-0, posting its first shutout since blanking Illinois, 28-0, on Nov. 19, 2016. The Hawkeye defense was outstanding and the offense kept its momentum going, despite a windy day that made it more difficult to pass.

IOWA POLITICS

IOWA POLITICS

Naig eyes full term as Gubernatorial candidates raise Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig, the Republican incumbent and candidate for Iowa secretary of agriculture, says he is focused on water quality, trade, and workforce development.

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Gubernatorial candidates Gov. Kim Reynolds and Fred Hubbell have raised $12.86 million in the last three months leading up to the midterms. BY JULIA DIGIACOMO

julia-digiacomo@uiowa.edu

Game day pride a way of life for Hawkeye super fans

gleaned from his time as deputy to his predecessor to the forefront of his election campaign.

The last three months have been a whirlwind of fundraising and spending for Iowa gubernatorial candidates, according to campaign-finance reports released Oct. 19. The documents reveal record-high contributions and expenditures between the two major candidates. Throughout the reporting period of July 15 to Oct. 14, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, and Democratic candidate Fred Hubbell raised a grand combined total of $12.86 million. The two campaigns spent $16 million. The numbers come two and a half weeks ahead of the midterm elections, which will decide Iowa’s next chief executive. In comparison, $10.7 million were Hubbell raised in total by the candidates in Iowa’s 2014 campaign for governor. The campaign-finance reports, which were released by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, show that Hubbell raised nearly twice as much as Reynolds with about $8.4 million of contributions in total. Reynolds reportedly raised $4.5 million since Oct. 15.

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For a group of five UI students, nothing is better than supporting the football team on game day. Between arriving hours early and dressing completely in black and gold, the participants see football as an essential part of being a UI student. NEWS, 3

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Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig sits in the Daily Iowan newsroom on Sept. 24. Naig is running for election to a full term after serving as deputy secretary of agriculture since 2013.

BY JULIA SHANAHAN

julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu Mike Naig, Iowa’s acting agriculture secretary, says he brings experience and passion


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